Anyone good with jpeg 450d settings?

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As I normally shoot raw, my in camera jpeg settings have never been adjusted or tested.

I have started doing some sports and soon realised shooting in raw my camera buffer soon gets full and stops shooting till its emptied etc.

So I have decided to shoot in jpeg, as most of my sport pictures havent needed any tweeks that couldnt have been done in jpeg form.

So the question is, under the picture style, what is the best setting in general, or for sports i.e rugby football etc.

Do I let the camera do the sharpening or should I leave that to my PP as normal and have the settings as all 0's

Any help welcome.
 
I don't shoot any jpg but would imagine thatit would rather important to take a few sample shots to check what the colours come out like so you can change the settings to day/cloudy etc to enhance the colours and have a look what comes out...
 
hmm I say shoot in raw, make sure your card is a decent speed, you should be able ot get 4/5 shot burst before it needs to clear the buffer.
I'd say that if you need more than that maybe consider upgrading your body to one with a faster fps rate.
 
I always set a user setting. Bump the contrast and saturation a little bit :thumbs:

This is going to be another.. "just shoot RAW" thread it seems. I shoot RAW, but I shoot Jpeg alot more :thumbs:
 
Well it's either shoot jpeg or go into debt for a new body lol

shooting raw I get my 6 shots yea, but after say 3 burst a few snaps and then burst it just doesn't keep up sometimes, And I miss some shots during the golden moments some times, and I use 30mb/s extreme sandisk.

So shooting jpeg saves me money I haven't got and also allows fow 40 odd pics instead of 6 lol
 
My default in-camera picture style is a custom one; based on Neutral, with +1 to contrast and saturation and sharpening at +3.

I hardly ever shoot Jpeg tbh but that's the look I like.
 
I don't have a great deal to add here but be aware of your white balance setting. I get lazy with my white balance and leave it on auto, as you can fully alter your white balance in the RAW file anyway on PP - so there's no real need to do it out on the field. With the JPEG it is obviously a compressed file where all the changes you see in camera are final, so if you ferk your white balance up, you will have a real hard time altering it without totally ruining the colours.
 
Good advice. Pick an appropriate one from the menu, or better still, shoot a grey card to get a custom WB.
 
I'm not sure but I suspect that most pro sports togs shoot JPG especially if the output is going straight out to customers.

There was a video on - I think - the Getty website, about how they configured their workflow at the last Olympics.

It was possible for there to only be a matter of minutes between the photo being taken and the edited (mildly - no RAW conversion mentioned) and captioned shot going out to customers.

It was actually quite impressive how they did it so quickly.

David
 
Deckard said:
Good advice. Pick an appropriate one from the menu, or better still, shoot a grey card to get a custom WB.
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I have found that shooting a grey card is the best option, and not auto white balance. As for shooting jpegs again, stick with it, As long as you get the exposure right, it's important to nail the action.
Otherwise a new body, faster cards, boils down to your other thread ;)
 
Willid1 said:
I'm not sure but I suspect that most pro sports togs shoot JPG especially if the output is going straight out to customers.

There was a video on - I think - the Getty website, about how they configured their workflow at the last Olympics.

It was possible for there to only be a matter of minutes between the photo being taken and the edited (mildly - no RAW conversion mentioned) and captioned shot going out to customers.

It was actually quite impressive how they did it so quickly.

David
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Yeah that was an awesome video. Where they were shooting the ice hockey I think? :thinking:
 
Robbo, why not do a test? Choose each defined mode, take a shot and then inspect them on a computer to check sharpening, WB etc...
 
specialman said:
Robbo, why not do a test? Choose each defined mode, take a shot and then inspect them on a computer to check sharpening, WB etc...
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Yea I suppose thats the only way I am going to find out what I like best....

p.s....my dog has just farted and it is the worst ****ing smell I have ever smelt the horrid little *******!!
 
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